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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers or Friends of HOLA who are getting acting, performance or similarly artistic gigs and/or recognition in the media. The names of HOLA members and Friends of HOLA are listed below in boldface. To see what other HOLA members are doing currently, click here.Mafer Rodríguez, shown at right, was profiled in the Héctor Luis Sin Censura blog (written and edited by Héctor Luis Rivera) as a result of her directorial debut when she helms the play Hombres de bar en bar. The play, written by Indira Páez, will be presented by IShowNY Productions in July as part of the VI Festival de Teatro Hispano del Comisionado at the Sala Rafael Villalona at the Comisionado Dominicano de Cultura en EEUU, located in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. The cast will include Rodríguez, Alfonso Rey, Sandor Juan, Antonio Rubio, William Pérez and Mario Mattei in the cast. To read the blog, which is in Spanish, click here.

Denia Brache booked an on-camera promo for AMC.

Cynthia Bastidas, shown at left, will be acting in the play She She She. Conceived by Carrie Heitman, the project is co-created by writer Virginia Grise, director Elena Araoz, visual and scenic artist Susan Zeeman Rogers, and the performing ensemble of Hook & Eye Theater (which consists of Nicole Aiken, Bastidas, Kimberly Gambino, Chad Lindsey, and Elizabeth London). The production is being presented in July as part of the Ice Factory 2016 festival at the New Ohio Theatre (located in Manhattan's West Village). For more information, click here or here. To buy tickets for the production, click here.

Judy Torres will be performing her hits at two gigs in late July. The first one will take place on Saturday, July 23, 2016 at the West Wind Capitol Theater in San José, California. For more information, click here. The second gig will take place on Saturday, July 30, 2016 at the Resorts World Casino New York City (located in the Jamaica section of Queens). For more information, click here?

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